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Re: Show HN: I made 7k images with DALL-E 2 to create a reference/inspiration table

#32

Wow, that's an impressive amount of images. How long did it take you to generate and curate so many?

Thank you! I think I first started to collect the generated images 2 months ago, with the help of some scripts I wrote — I have a list of prompts (around 350), a list of subjects (5 currently), and then I rename/check all of the saved images to find the ones that are missing.

Thankfully, DALL-E 2 includes the prompt text in the image filename when you download them. This was very helpful!

Re: Show HN: I made 7k images with DALL-E 2 to create a reference/inspiration table

#33
post #3

DALL-E tech aside, this is a great reference for artistic style.

Is it? I only had time to go through the start of the list, but...

Accurate:

Berkey, Magritte

Inaccurate:

Arkley, Botticelli, Elvgren, Eng, Kahlo, and ironically Dali

Mediocre:

Bouguereau, Degas, Hopper, Kandinsky, Leighton

Oh! I guess this is a great reference for "what this prompt will do to a Dall-E picture, since it usually won't resemble the original artist that much."

Re: Show HN: I made 7k images with DALL-E 2 to create a reference/inspiration table

#34
I tried quite a few of them in stable diffusion, and while I found the results typically look worse, it was still interesting. How much curation of the output did you do or was it that exact prompt and the first result?

I would love to see it re-run with stable diffusion, and have those added along side/or ability to toggle.

Re: Show HN: I made 7k images with DALL-E 2 to create a reference/inspiration table

#35

I tried quite a few of them in stable diffusion, and while I found the results typically look worse, it was still interesting. How much curation of the output did you do or was it that exact prompt and the first result? I would love to see it re-run with stable diffusion, and have those added along side/or ability to toggle.

I guess there are two scenarios:

1. The original prompt I gave it wasn't quite right, so I'd try a few different prompts with slightly different wording until I got something I was happy with. This happened with maybe 10% of the prompts I ran.

2. The prompt text was correct but it gave one or two bad images. In this case, I typically kept them rather than re-running them. I thought it would be a good showcase of its limitations. There's one particular type of image that I constantly (maybe 4 times) would get. It's so unique and I have no idea why it would generate that amongst other more "normal" images. You can see it here: https://generrated.com/prompts/extremeBokeh?prompt=extremeBo... — it's like a real estate listing. Quite strange.

Re: Show HN: I made 7k images with DALL-E 2 to create a reference/inspiration table

#37
post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm using the default settings on the webui, here are the parameters: ``` Portrait of Joe Biden in the oval office, 4k render seed:1331361607 width:512 height:512 steps:50 cfg_scale:7.5 sampler:k_lms ```

Thanks for providing the seed, because that would let me show you how exactly the parameters can affect your specific image without generating a "random" different one every time. Check out the exact same seed and prompt and cfg_scale, but with the steps aka iteration number at 100 (50 in general feels way too low, even for the samplers that are kinda good with low iteration numbers). https://pasteboard.co/I6yXg5mZip…

that was a cool detailed breakdown.

how did you learn all that? i'm a noob at prompt engineering but would love to know how to get good at it with the least amount of time.

any good reasources to get up to speed?

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